Have developers ever listened to people's requests?

Bloodweb grind? The bloodweb is still awful and grindy as ever.

That doesn’t mean it’s not bad anymore. The grind still is pretty bad and the bloodweb still needs a rework.

Too often, and yet not often enough.

rofl bloodweb grind ok

Yeah, I answered the question. What about it.

Actually, yes. Remember old really good nurse? Survivors asked to nerf her for a long time. Now she's just good. I guess they do.

No, that's not true. It was tied to the pipping system they had before the emblems. If you got 4x 5000 points, you got a double pip. The counter still got over 5000 to 8000, but when your circle was full, you knew you had enough in that category for progress to a pip.

If I remember correctly, around 15k gave you a pip. Less than that a black or depip. Above like 20k double pip.

Yes, i asked for "end game timer" after the gates opened and 6 months later they introduced the end game collapse. You're welcome.

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/39456/1-chat-in-spectate-mode-2-death-timer-once-gates-open-for-survivors-that-refuse-to-leave

A big request they listened to that was just objectively bad for the game was making it so pallets blocked attacks at any phase of the swing. At game launch, pallets only blocked attacks if near perfectly timed, effectively making them a tool to use that results in you taking damage but getting more effective distance on your on hit speed boost.

This sounds bad, but remember this was back when survivors were much faster, so that let you REALLY haul ass and be on the entire other side of the map. Enduring was pretty mandatory those days.

You could also pre-drop them to cut off an angle, and again because survivors were so fast back then pre-speed and vault nerf, that resulted in a pretty absurd distance gain if the killer had to break or go around.

But despite this being relatively fair with how the game was played at the time (higher survivor speed meant that stealthy play was ironically better, as breaking chases was much easier as you displaced more distance on the killer if you broke LOS and changed directions a few times before they realized what happened and suddenly had a massive area to search, and weaker resources meant it was more important to know how to do this), it was very not intuitive: new players were upset that they used pallets and got hurt. So pallets were made so strong killers basically couldn't hurt you if you threw one, which utterly broke the game and made pallet looping truly ridiculous and survivor utterly braindead.

Eventually this was semi-reverted after the game got so unplayable for killer as a result of pallets basically resetting chases to a 20 meter chase distance every pallet that there was a strike, which forced the devs to make it so that pallets weren't a total safe zone anymore. They didn't seem to completely revert it though, as now its much easier to block a hit while also stunning the killer with a pallet. Which kinda makes sense because this was well after survivor speeds were set to 4.0. But vacuum pallet completely changed DBD's design to go from focusing on hard LOS breaks and misdirects to looping and interacting a lot with the killer over a long period of time while remaining safe. A lot of survivors just flat out never have learned how to break a chase ever because you can get good enough at looping to consistently hold the killer for 10 minutes, and while that takes WAY more skill than it used too its interesting to see how this is biting people in the rear now that maps are getting actual deadzones to help force you to want to play stealthily sometimes again.

Also swivelhook was a big one, and one that was actually a good idea. I was against it at the time, but it grew n me. It still is part of the canon of 'Devs listen to survivor complaints and make QOL changes for them VERY fast while killer QOL takes forever and ever to be 'tested' and tends to be very lackluster or even a way to make the game worse for them, like EGC.

In general its less that the devs do literally what people say (Famously, but perhaps not famously enough, around devstream 37 they basically told people complaining about camping and tunneling to just stop already because any further nerfs to it just won't ever happen, basically a 'Get good' to the community) and will more keep track of major points of community contention and maaaaybe do stuff about it and not necessarily in any order. Like hatch standoffs were a real drag on the game forever and took months to change, and they still haven't really done anything about accessibility issues such as colorblind modes or removing the button mashing element from phase 2 of hooking.

This is subpar, but the 'nerf plz' scrubculture of DBD is strong enough that I do appreciate devs being not very hasty about instantly changing stuff. DBD is one of the worst competitive communities I have seen for even veteran players who are good at the game participating in scrub culture because for them the appeal of the game is kinda just styling on people rather than actually playing an interesting game, often called 'Ochido wannabies' after a streamer who played in this style (And who seems to have cleaned up his act quite a bit after being banned for basically making the community into a cesspool that did this sorta thing, even though his history of this sorta terrible behavior is part of his brand).

Also obviously some DBD players are very delightful. Its just that the community knowledgebase aspect is probably the worst of any game that focuses so much on competitive PVP that I have seen and thus the community's 'mechanical literacy' is very low and thus they don't actually have good feedback to give. And sometimes the bad feedback is on purpose.

Yeah, Nightmare's rework was a result of overwhelming negative feedback.

Save The Best For Last's Token system was repeatedly named as a great idea they found as a suggestion.

There's enough other examples.

Whether they listen a lot or "enough" is a whole 'nother discussion, but it's not like they're 100% deaf.